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Sunday, August 20, 2017

Something different: Sunday Stealing-- Wendy Weetabix... Say whaatt???

Something different  

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Here's something different for this week.  

There is a woman named "Wendy Weetabix" who wrote a blog called That's My Bix, but the last entry was from 2015.  But she has been posting random questions for the past several months on Facebook.  I went through and picked a few of them for us to answer this week.

1. What is a normal thing that took you an embarrassingly long time to learn?  I had to learn that, for me, Addition and Subtraction was not something that came naturally.  I had to do work arounds so that I could do it.  It took an awfully long time.

2. In what ways are you old-fashioned?
Probably my moral compass regarding, for one thing, marriage.  I don't impose it on anyone else, but some things that are sort of now commonplace in our society, still feel somewhat wrong to me when re-examine my compass, like now. The interesting decline of Marriage is one of them.  I'll not delve into the others.  Now, I feel it's important if there are children, to be a committed, loyal couple, and legally, but not otherwise. And, this still makes me a little uncomfortable.  I hope to reach the point that I'm totally OK with the new reality.  If the Tribal Chief or Elder, or a Sea Captain, takes your hand and places it into the hand of your beloved, that's a marriage.  Different strokes for different folks.  

3. What is the best sandwich you've ever eaten? Where did you get it? What made it so delicious?  The best sandwiches I've ever eaten were from home, but they were copies of some that we'd had at Zolezzi's here in town.  They were Italian Sausage sandwiches, and they are very delicious because of how they were made, with a split bagatelle crusty roll, With nothing more than some grilled onions and peppers, and grilled sweet sausages as toppings.  

4. What are you currently not bragging about that you should totally brag about? 
I have no bragging rights on anything that I know of.  I've had so many scars patched over deep philosophical, and almost mortal wounds the last year and a half that I'm just glad to still be here for my DH and our other kids.  

I will miss my girl, both her amazing mind, and her wise council, for the rest of my life.  I don't feel like I have anything to brag about.  I've lost something far too precious to feel pride.  I regret the years that went by without spending more time with her.  The loss of the years into the future is bitter indeed.

5. What food have you never tasted and are most interested in trying? 
I am of an age, that if I had wanted to taste something, anything,  I'd have done so already.     

6. What history facts were you surprised to learn because it was never covered in school?
That whole duplicitous stretch of our National history where the American government caused so much harm. We didn't live in a vacuum in our expansionist periods, nor in a vast and empty land, and more and more we are finding that out.  Greed and aggression will always come home with a vengeance.

7. What is something that you waited entirely too long to start or stop doing? What made you say "Why did I wait so long?"
I waited too long to establish myself as a seascape painter and portrait artist.  That's a career that can last a whole, long lifetime but it needs to be pretty much established by the mid 30's.  Like any career, you have to build it when you have the stamina to do so! lol

8. What socially expected thing do you hate doing the most? What thing about polite society really grinds your gears? 
I'm not sure exactly what Polite Society is, I'm not anywhere near the level that something such as that comes into play.  I've answered the second question first, which is a very bad habit I've gotten over the years.  It's akin to rambling, but not exactly the same thing.

I guess something that comes close, is that notion that a woman's best and almost ONLY purpose is that she must keep her house as neat as a pin.  I wasted almost the whole of my young life being neat as a pin, and believe me, it doesn't make you anything but crazy.  So, there is that idea that grinds my gears.  That is something I hate.  
I'm not naturally Obsessive Compulsive, but I know some people who are, and they are hideous to live with. If a peanut butter jar is not down in exactly the place they left it, label turned just so, the other people in the house hear about it and every other thing that they have done to induce Chaos.  My mother was tidy but she wasn't OCD.  But, I digress.

9. What is something about your city that I should know if I'm going to visit? What is the hidden "must see" that you always tell friends and visitors to not miss?
Torrey Pines State Beach, the one that you have to walk out to over the hills and dunes.  Now THAT place is worth the walk.  I have a gorgeous picture of it but Googles now got it, and I can't find it!  

10. What do you miss most about childhood?
I really don't miss childhood. Being an adult is WAY better.  :)

11. What "fact" did you learn in school that is not true or no longer true?
The thing that had the most impact was the whole "Indian Wars" thing and how bad "they" (the Native Americans) were to attack the soldiers.  Who did they think they were, anyway?  Hollywood busily re-enforced this false view.  

12. What's your favorite piece of useless trivia? 
Trivia is always useful.  It might be obnoxious but it's useful. 
I like this Trivia:  "Nothing has more strength than dire Necessity."  Very informative, yes?  In case you don't know it, it's a quote from Euripides, and was used in an episode of Inspector Lewis.  There is no better classic read than the works of Euripides....Aristotle, meh..  Pythagoras, Yay!   James Joyce, meh.

13. What's your best go to homemade "lazy" meal?
Dinner?  A sandwich and some cut up carrots with a few chips and iced tea.  

14. What's the title of this current chapter in your life?
I was just thinking of this a few weeks ago.  I thought it should be called, "Waiting for God", like that BBC show.  So, I'll say that.  Waiting for God.

15. What is a habit or practice that you learned from your childhood that you didn't realize was "weird" until you were an adult?
Memory fails me, it was SO LONG AGO that I was a child.  Anyway, if I do think of something, I'll plug it in before the publish date - Midnight.  

OK.  I'm intuitive to the nth degree.  It's considered weird so people hide it.  I mean really intuitive.  I'm so old now that it's helping me to the grave, so I like that about it.  I've never talked about it much before now, but now it's sort of a harmless little quirk that will soon fade away into the dust of ages.  You really don't think this web will last all that long if the big Intel companies control it do you?  Me, either.  

Good night and Good Luck!


8 comments:

  1. I thought Italian sausage sandwiches were an east coast thing. My husband loves them and that is his go-to food when we go to a fair or festival. I think I have some in the freezer, too...might have to make him some soon.
    Hollywood sure did push the good whites/bad Injuns view (I don't remember ever studying the Indian wars in school) but it backfired with me. I always wanted to be a Native American and was quite disappointed when my mom assured me I was as W.A.S.P as it gets.
    I don't know if I'm as intuitive as you, but I tend to be much more so than anyone around me. My brain just takes the most far-flung information and processes it in one gigantic leap to a conclusion that is correct. My husband regularly shakes his head over it, wanting to know how my brain does that when he would never, in a million years of pondering put together what I just did in seconds. I don't have an answer...it just happens.

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    1. Hi Stacy.
      I was answering, at length, using the @ sign and names but lost it as well as a comment by Bev. when trying to add her name to it. *hangs Head*
      About that rapid lateral thinking thing: I think it's in the water in that area of the country because we both seem to have that. J/k. I spent all my life until three years drinking that water. lol
      And LOL about being a WASP. I'm basically all WASP on one side and Spanish,French and Native American(from the Four Corners region) on the other side.
      The sandwiches seem to by an Italian thing. Bob's Italian grandfather used to eat raw eggs cracked onto Italian bread for breakfast, so I was glad that it didn't catch on with the rest of the family.

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  2. I loved your responses. I don't think it is old-fashioned to want people to be married - I rather feel the same way but didn't come up with that response. My nephew just moved in with his girlfriend and I would rather they had married. Each to their own, I guess.

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    1. I know how you feel and share it. I would rather they be married. Margaret Mead once advocated for Trial Marriages. She said that the legal mumbo jumbo could be eliminated and people could more freely walk away. Someone on the panel said, "But wouldn't that lead to people just taking advantage?" She retorted, "They are already taking advantage!"
      But still, it's just a little unsettling. In California, at least, a couple can register as Domestic Partners. This gives each of them certain rights. I'm down with that. I'm also proud to call my daughter's partner my Son.

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    1. I'm sorry Bev. MEA CULPA! *cries* I accidentally hit delete and thought I was deleting something I had done in the new wonky way I'm answering comments. I will never try it again!

      Thank you kindly. Laura was very beautiful, inside and out. She had a very hard life in school and in Life, and though she could sometimes be autocratic, she wasn't in the end. She became everything that she should have been without all the abuse she suffered. She was beloved at the Hospital where she died. She rarely got a chance to show this side of her self except in the last Act, while exiting the "stage". But we all saw it, glimmering away.

      About school. We were taught very little about the Native American "Clearings" but, plenty about the Sooners, etc. How this country was, "Settled" by these brave Pioneers. The annihilations of the Native American peoples were even more brutal than the "Highland Clearings" of Scotland, by England.

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  4. As a history teacher, I try to acknowledge the unpleasant parts of our history--including the treatment of Native Americans.

    Your answers are, as always, interesting and insightful.

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    1. I want to go back and take classes from masterful teachers, like you! College Freshmen should not be left to be blindsided by reality and truth when they leave High School behind.

      Thank you for your encouraging words. I tend to think a lot about so many things. God's going to have to tell me to shut up so that a word can be got in sideways! maybe for me, it will be The Spanish Inquisition? hahaha

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